Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic information : comprising complete and practical instructions on the house and its furniture, artistic decoration economy, toilet, children, etiquette, domestic and fancy needlework, dressmaking and millinery, and all other household matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated (1879)
Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865 · London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. · leaf 635
denied to English women. They thusthrow themselves upon their milliners, their dressmakers, their fashion-books, for a choice of a bonnet, a dress, or a fashion. Milliners, dress-makers, and fashion-books have necessarily a monotonous sameness,all drawing, as they do, their inspiration from one… … SQUARE HOOP, 1735. ROUND HOOP, 1755. 1000. PLACE AVX DAMES! The little that we have to say ofmens clothing shall follow the more extensive subject of femininegarmenture. We will begin with the type of figure for which all thefashions of the present day appear to be designed and intended ; thelong,…
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